The user’s prize: A signed 18-inch-by-24-inch oil painting of a blue American flag featuring a part of the Pledge of Allegiance, which had a starting bid of $0.99.

The identity of the buyer is unknown, but according to the listing, the winning auction bid was one of 96 by 24 users when bidding closed at 9:55 a.m. Saturday.

Using the EBay account “therealgeorgez,” Zimmerman, 30, put his artwork up for auction early this week.

“Everyone has been asking what I have been doing with myself,” the listing reads. “I found a creative way to express myself, my emotions and the symbols that represent my experiences. My art work allows me to reflect, providing a therapeutic outlet and allows me to remain indoors :-)”

Zimmerman, 30, whose arsenal was confiscated in November following a domestic dispute with his girlfriend, picked up his four firearms, including a shotgun and an assault rifle from the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office in Sanford, Fla., this week.

He was eligible to retrieve the weapons since Dec. 11 when assault charges against him were dismissed.

Zimmerman, perhaps Florida’s most notorious gun owner, picked up the weapons on Tuesday and Wednesday and returned to the sheriff’s office on Thursday with girlfriend Samantha Scheibe, 27, because she also had to retrieve a handgun police seized during the same incident in November.

Returned to Zimmerman were an Interarms .380-caliber handgun, a Glock 19 handgun, a Kel-Tec 12-gauge shotgun and an AR-15 assault rifle.

George Zimmerman has his moments of heroism, such as helping the woman whose home was invaded get better locks installed and helping the family in the serious wreck get out of their vehicles.

But he has very bad taste in women and presidential candidates/parties.

Anyone who would/could support Barack Obama and go back to a girlfriend who called the cops on him and with her mother, was shopping for a media interview, has reason/logic/cognitive problems, moral and spiritual blindness.

I said a long time ago that Eric Holder will never return to Zimmerman his gun(s) now in DOJ’s possession. Holder will falsely pretend he is continuing to investigate whether the Martin shooting was racially motivated for as long as he heads the DOJ. That “investigation” will remain open until Holder and/or Obama leave office. Zimmerman may get his gun(s) back from the DOJ if a Republicans wins the presidency in 2016, but I would not be surprised at all if the gun(s) conveniently get lost in the bureaucracy.

I’m not surprised a county sheriff did the right thing and gave Zimmerman his guns back. I’ll truly be shocked if Eric Holder’s Dept. of Justice ever does.

It’s one 9mm of mediocre quality. Better to buy another one than fight that fight by yourself.

I don’t think he would ever sell it. Think about it: It’s one thing to sell his artwork; it’s quite another to go auction off that firearm and all of its negative connotations. I’m sure he would rather not get that media spotlight again.

Mediocre? His PF-9 killed his attacker just as dead as my $1200 Kimber Pro Aegis II would have…. and without any failure to extract issues. Every Kel-Tec I’ve owned went bang on target, flawlessly, every time I’ve used them.

Easy for you to say, unless it was your buttocks in the Florida courtroom chair. Okay I’ll just say it – YMMV, and it obviously does.

GZ must think MOM was worth it otherwise he’d head into bankruptcy court and make it go away. Of course, there is still plenty of time to make the real tortfeasors pay. That would be those who conspired to annihilate GZ using public slander so that they could snake a few million out of the homeowners association. You really don’t think that “settlement” is binding if it was based on false facts, do you?

The GZ saga is far from over, which is why the LSM keeps trying to distract us with shiny objects designed to make GZ look bad. Heck, it almost worked the first time.